Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in a television interview to be broadcast on Sunday that British troops could leave Iraq by the end of 2006 and that Iraqi troops should be ready to take over from them in the area by the end of next year. Talabani said in the interview for Independent Television ``We don't want British forces forever in Iraq. Within one year - I think at the end of 2006 - Iraqi troops will be ready to replace British forces in the south.' When asked about immediate withdrawal of British forces from the region Talabani said such a plan ``would lead to a kind of civil war and ... we will lose what we have done for liberating Iraq from worst kind of dictatorship.' Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk
